flight advisory การใช้
- Enroute Flight Advisory Service ( EFAS ) or Flight Watch was designed to give pilots who are already airborne updates on weather during their current flight, and take pilots'reports or PIREPS, which they enter into the computer for transmission to the National Weather Service.
- While it was unable to determine why each crew failed to see and avoid the other aircraft, The report also noted that the decision by both flight crews to fly under VFR rather than IFR and the fact that neither captain requested in-flight advisories deprived both aircraft of air traffic control support, and that such support to even one of the aircraft would have ensured sufficient separation to avoid a collision.
- On January 20, 1966, the office moved its operations into the Federal Aviation Administration Building at the Municipal Airport, and became the largest office of the Weather Bureau ( which would be renamed the National Weather Service on January 1, 1967 ) located outside of Washington D . C . The office complex became known as the National Severe Storms Forecast Center ( NSSFC ), incorporating the observations and SELS units and ten additional units RADU ( which provided analysis of hourly radar reports ), Comms ( which managed the Weather Bureau's teletype circuits ), a District Forecast unit ( responsible for oversight of the regional forecast offices in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska ), a Flight Advisory unit ( which provided aviation forecasts for the Midwestern United States ), a WSR-57 radar unit, regional and national public service units, and units for satellite forecasts, atmospheric charting, forecasting computers, and Techniques and Development.